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Baroque 1600-1750. 1600 – the modern world. The old way – a network of loyalties. CITY. CITY. CITY. CITY. The new way – THE STATE. CITY. CITY. CITY. CITY. This idea in art – Versailles. p. 278-79. Baroque. Change from church to absolute monarchy
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The old way – a network of loyalties CITY CITY CITY CITY
The new way – THE STATE CITY CITY CITY CITY
This idea in art – Versailles p. 278-79
Baroque • Change from church to absolute monarchy • Exemplified by Louis 14th and Versailles • an insult -“grotesque”- applied to design & architecture • comes to mean: light, energy, motion, drama in painting & sculpture
Baroque • comes to mean: light, energy, motion, drama • also: complex, ornamented, convoluted
Artists • El Greco - Spain • Caravaggio - Italy • Bernini – Italy • Rubens - France • Rembrant – Holland • Vermeer - Holland
El GrecoView of Toledoc. 1597Oil on canvas47 3/4 x 42 3/4 in.
2-faced woman El GrecoLaocoon1608-1614Oil on canvas142 x 193 cm
El Greco The Adoration of the Shepards The Resurrection
CaravaggioThe Calling of St. Matthew,c. 1600 KEY IMAGE p. 269
From the Renaissance stability of the triangle or pyramid(the balance valued in Classicism) to the DRAMATIC DIAGONAL of the Baroque
Caravaggio • Murderous, difficult personality • perhaps as notorious as famous • worked from life directly in oil, no intervening sketching • controversial style – considered sacrilegious by some • used contemporary peasants & common settings for Biblical stories • followers called “Caravaggisti” • reputation languished; rehabilitated in 20th-Century
CaravaggioAmor Vincit Omniac. 1601-02Oil on canvas75 1/4 x 58 1/4 in
CARAVAGGIOThe Crucifixion of Saint Peter1600-1601Oil on canvas90 1/2 x 70 in
Gentileschi,Judith Slaying Holofernes,1620 FAMOUS FEMALE ARTIST; A CARAVAGGISTI p. 269; on final!
Bernini,Ecstasy of St. Teresa,1647-52 KEY IMAGE pp. 267-268
Bernini,David,1623-24 p. 266
Bernini,Baldacchino of St. Peters1624-33Gilt bronze,Height approx. 100 ft. p. 263
p. 265 Vatican
Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656 p. 260
SUMMARY – BAROQUE ART POLITICS: emergence of The State ART: light, motion, drama, complex, ornamented, convoluted, diagonal CHURCH still an active patron with the energy of the Counter-Reformation ROYAL patronage & PRIVATE patronage shape tastes too IDEAS: scientific method